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| Late this afternoon, the National Oil Spill Incident Commander announced that BP’s broken oil well had been capped at approximately 3:30 PM, shutting off the flow of 1.5 to 2.5 million gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| To offer concerned citizens a way to respond to the more than two-month old disaster in the Gulf, Environment America has launched an effort called Gumbo for the Gulf. Concerned citizens in 28 states have signed up to host over 150 houseparty fundraisers, which started in mid-June, to benefit Environment America’s effort to address the BP oil catastrophe and help prevent future ones. | |
| Today, Representative Pallone, NJ-D and Representative Castor, FL-D joined with Environment America, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace, MoveOn, Oceana, League of Conservation Voters, and Ocean Champions to release more than 400,000 comments from citizens all around the U.S. asking President Obama to protect our oceans and coasts from the expansion of offshore drilling. | |
| As Congress is poised, for the first time ever, to consider a package of bills aimed at restoring waterways across the nation, Environment New York today released a report highlighting the value of these waters, challenges they face, and how the legislation would address those challenges. | |
| Environment New York's Anna Aurilio on the decision to allow more offshore drilling. | |
| President Obama used his first Oval Office address to the nation to detail his administration’s response to the disastrous BP oil spill, and to call on Congress to pass a comprehensive clean energy policy to help move the country away from oil. Environment New York’s Federal Global Warming Program Director Nathan Willcox issued the following statement in response: | |
| Today, as Exxon-Mobil held its annual meeting in Irving, Texas, local activists with Environment New York gathered on Wall Street to call on the company to approve a shareholder resolution to protect drinking water from gas drilling operations. | |
| Washington, DC -- Toxic chemicals used in natural gas drilling could pose a threat to water quality near the nearly 500,000 gas wells nationwide according to a report released today by Environment America. The report, "Toxic Chemicals on Tap: How Gas Drilling Threatens Drinking Water," details how the chemicals in gas drilling could endanger clean water in the United States. | |
| Environment New York applauds Representatives Ehlers (Mich.) and Oberstar (Minn.), Senators Levin (Mich.) and Voinovich (Ohio) and the U.S. Congress for passing bipartisan legislation to clean up toxic contamination in the Great Lakes. | |
| Environment America applauds Senators Levin (Mich.) and Voinovich (Ohio) and the U.S. Senate for passing legislation yesterday to clean up toxic contamination in the Great Lakes. The Senate voted for the Great Lakes Legacy Reauthorization Act (H.R. 6460), which authorizes $54 million a year for two years in funding to clean up toxic pollution. | |
| Existing water-efficient technologies and practices could save up to 1.86 trillion gallons of water per year in six Southwestern states alone, according to a new report released today by Environment America. | |
| Environment America today challenged a Bush Administration rule to increase pollution in U.S. rivers, lakes, and streams. | |
| We applaud the House of Representatives for passing legislation today to protect our communities from sewage spills. | |
| The Bush administration issued a final rule today that will increase the amount of pollution in America’s waterways. | |
| Statement of Christy Leavitt, Environment America Clean Water Advocate | |
| Americans rely on our rivers, lakes, streams and bays for clean water to drink and safe places to swim, boat and fish. The Clean Water Act has protected all waterways across the country for more than three decades. Recent murky Supreme Court decisions and Bush administration policies have thrown that longstanding certainty into doubt. | |
| As the Senate subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security and Water Quality is hearing in testimony today, pharmaceuticals are emerging as a serious concern for our nation’s drinking water supplies. Congress should require the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry to prevent its products from further contaminating our drinking water, or to pay for the cost of removing them. | |
| A broad coalition of hunting, fishing and environmental groups collectively support the passage of the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2008. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a public hearing this morning on the pending bill. | |
| Today’s findings by the Associated Press confirm what Environment America has suspected for some time: that prescription drugs and other medicines are now in the tap water for millions of Americans. Many of the nation’s top health experts have predicted this growing threat for years and have warned about the impending challenge of protecting U.S. drinking water supplies from increased contamination due to pharmaceutical drugs. | |
| Washington, DC—A federal appeals court today ruled that the Bush administration’s rules allowing coal-fired power plants to avoid making deep cuts in mercury pollution violate the law. The court’s decision invalidates the administration’s so-called “Clean Air Mercury Rule,” which would have allowed power plants to continue emitting dangerously high levels of mercury emissions under a weak cap-and-trade program that would not have taken full effect until 2020. | |
| Washington, D.C.—Fourteen states and dozens of Native American tribes, public health and environmental groups, and organizations representing registered nurses and physicians appeared in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today seeking to overturn Bush administration proposals that evade legally required cuts in mercury pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants. | |
| Environment America applauds the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for voting to better protect swimmers, surfers and boaters at America’s beaches. | |
| Washington, DC— More than 57 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across America discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allowed in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment America. | |
| Nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a murky split decision on federal clean water protections in Rapanos v. United States, the U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced a policy guidance today that instructs agency field staff on which waters are now protected by the Clean Water Act. | |
| Environment America applauds Representatives James Oberstar (D-MN), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) and John Dingell (D-MI) and 155 of their House colleagues for introducing the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007. This important legislation protects America’s waters by ensuring that all U.S. waterways continue to be safeguarded by the Clean Water Act. | |
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